composer
Henk Badings is one of the great composers of the twentieth century, according to the musicologist Leo Samama. Samama describes him as “a versatile artist who apparently could effortlessly go ...
related works
Concerto : for viola and string orchestra, 1965 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Viola and string orchestra
Scoring:
str vla-solo
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2232 4330 timp hp str
Sunbeams : for orchestra, 1986-1998 / Michael Fahres
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2pic 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 2sax 4h 3trp 2trb tb timp 8perc hp g-b pf str
Sinfonia / Alexander Voormolen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 2200 timp str
composition
Symphonie no. 3 : (1934) / Henk Badings
Contains:
Allegro
Scherzo (presto)
Adagio
Allegro assai
Description:
Program note (English): The third Symphony was composed in 1934. The Dutch Music Festival of 1935, held to mark the occasion of Willem Mengelberg's forty years of conductorship of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, saw the first performance. The work, which was dedicated to Mengelberg, is in four movements. It opens with a dramatic Allegro, introduced martially by the brass. The Scherzo which follows, is in the form of a double fugue. The elegiac Adagio contrasts pleasantly with the liveliness od the Scherzo, and the Finale returns to the dramatics of the first movement.